Tęsknię Więc Jestem, O Zachowywaniu Pamięci. Na Przykładzie Miasteczka Bełz
I Miss Therefore I Am, About Savining of Memory. Based on the Example of the Song Miasteczko Bełz

Summary/Abstract: The article is dedicated to the following versions of the song Miasteczko Bełz [My Hometown Bełz](music Aleksander Olshanetsky): 1) Mein sztetełe Bełz, 1932 (text in Yiddish by Jacob Jacobs; Polish translation 1935 – J. Roman); 2) Miasteczko Bełz dwadzieścia lat po wojnie, two versions from the sixties (text by Agnieszka Osiecka); 3) Miasteczko Bełz. Pół wieku później, mid-nineties (text by Roman Kołakowski); 4) Warszawo ma, 1947 (tex tby Ludwik Starski). Subsequent changes of the text work on the principle of the palimpsest – the part that is not blurred is the word “town”, and its meaning characterized by history together with its melody with a Jewish folk musical motif. These two repetitive elements allow the sources of nostalgia that is ubiquitous in the contemporary world to be revealed and they document the ways in which memory functions. Context for considerations is Zygmunt Haupt’s story Lili Marleen.

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